Teenagers Addicted To Social Media Why?

New Delhi: Teenagers these days have become so obsessed with social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Vine, Snapchat, and video games) that it distracts them from getting involved in the real world, which in turn has a harmful effect o...

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Getting a large number of likes on their own photos or the photos of their peers activated the same brain circuits turned on by such things as eating chocolate or winning money, the study found. "When the teens saw their own photos with a large nu...

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The 32 teenagers, ages 13-18, were told they were participating in a small social network similar to the popular photo-sharing app, Instagram. In an experiment at UCLA's Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, the researchers showed them 148 photo...